RE: is tor any good?

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Posted on 21-10-07 06:01

spyware wrote:
Only a REALLY REALLY good pro can break tor, or so I believe.

The only method I know of for beginning to "break Tor" involved a study of the server's tendency to accumulate heat. By studying the times between transmissions, someone was able to locate Tor servers with a reasonable amount of reliability. I don't remember the exact article I read, but I'm sure someone can find it easily online. Quite an interesting study, actually.

RE: is tor any good?

My honest opinion of tor is it is good but can slow your internet down allot and gets in the way sometimes!

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Posted on 21-10-07 15:44

FireSaleHaxor wrote:
My honest opinion of tor is it is good but can slow your internet down allot and gets in the way sometimes!

Well, of course... chaining anonymous proxies could probably slow your Internet down and get in the way sometimes. In fact, there's the possibility that it might even help to protect your anonymity! So, you should definitely not use it!

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I was reading some news articles on tor, and I saw one that said something about the government owning almost 90% tor's nodes and that it is untrusted.

What exactly does that mean?

[edit]Another question I have, is that would tor be a good proxy server for downloading torrents? My dad got 2 emails from optimum online saying that I have been downloading illegal files, and Id prefer to stop getting those emails...[/edit]

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your traffic will usually be re-routed to a tor node, which will help in case you got a version of google in a different country ( i got google germany)

i think a hackthiszine article on darknets said if you're a really wanted guy, they can just track down the tor node, and from there, they will simply ask the node operator for the logs, and then track you from there.

i think torrents can run fine under tor, but it'll take a while.

i use it too, and it's quite sufficient.

i think by what is meant by untrusted is because some people like spammers, info warriors (guys who work for the government, the people i favor the least) and some rogue virus gangs (like skynet and netsky that concentrate on inflating their own egos, not groups like 29A and Doomriderz who write virus for research) use tor for their activities.

i once read an article on digg on how tor is used to sniff traffic on government computers, and a security expert told the relevant people about it, they didn't care and he ended up posting all the details on his blog.

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Sorry to kinda hijack this thread but what exactly happens when you get caught downloading illegally? Is it something serious or minor. I'm saying this hypothetically of course. No one here would download anything.

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Futility wrote:
what exactly happens when you get caught downloading illegally?

Downloading copyrighted material has been illegal for a few years in Sweden. It's estimated that about 2-3 million people have downloaded illegally since then (and we're 9 million people total) but less than ten people have get busted. None of them have had to go to jail, just pay.

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Uber0n wrote:
We had the same law in Sweden a few years ago, it's kinda like our law that says it's illegal to buy sex but it's legal to sell sex lol

Lol.

It's not legal, in any way, selling/buying sex here.

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Posted on 13-01-08 20:18

well in American i do believe it is illegal....but there is nothing stopping us...i mean come on....who would be the better to catch?...the user or the dealer?......i think thats were police are retarded....make it hard to get the so called "illegal" files narrowing down their search for leachers...anyway...

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